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Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Trump has threatened Europe with He even threatened to invade a country that is part of the EU

Greenland? Weirdly, Greenland is part of Denmark but _not_ part of the EU. Still the greatest US realignment in regard to Europe since the war.

Well, as Greenland is part of Denmark, the threat is against a member of the EU

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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post #42

While I do find it an interesting exercise to reflect over my own choices of products and services and consider how I could divest myself from relying on ones provided by US companies (and I do agree Europe is too reliant on the US in some regards), it is a bit sad to see how quickly things are spiraling here. People really love to have a clear enemy...

I'd always rather, if possible, give my money to a company that pays their tax where I do. That's simple self interest.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Toting Adidas, Puma, Jack & Jones, Decathlon etc. as "European-meade" is laughable when everyone knows their clothes are actually manufactured in third-world low-labor-protection countries.

Heck, I can make a safe bet that the vast majority of the companies listed here sell items at least partially made outside of Europe.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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Thank you for including the UK, we are still part of Europe! Added my company ( https://mailpace.com ) - I’m looking forward to a resurgence of innovation in European tech companies, the talent and education here is amazing, we just need to improve our investment and start treating tech with as much respect as we give to law, finance and other “prestigious” career paths here

I know that it's not in the cards (yet), but I hope the UK and the EU can be a single market again (even if the UK does not rejoin the EU). Let's make our market as large and attractive as possible! We love the UK and you are part of the European family :hugs:.

Whilst a good idea, no politician is going to try and do it under the fear of reigniting the Brexit argument which ends up dominating politics in the country.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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post #60
post #42

While I do find it an interesting exercise to reflect over my own choices of products and services and consider how I could divest myself from relying on ones provided by US companies (and I do agree Europe is too reliant on the US in some regards), it is a bit sad to see how quickly things are spiraling here. People really love to have a clear enemy...

If you walk into a European supermarket, fashion store or MediaMarkt there is very little coming from the US. The giant container ships are coming from the East not the West.

The chips and software in a lot of those products are coming from the US, even if the final products are manufactured in the East.

The US makes the biggest margins from valuable IP and software services, not from mass produced widgets coming in shipping containers.

Re: Go European: Discover European products and services

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$ wget -qO - https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE... | pdftotext - - | grep -i banner | wc -l 0

You really think law would be such a highly sought-after and highly-compensated field if it was that easy?

There are competing incentives. Governments/politicians want to make it easy for companies to comply in order to encourage economic investment, and also to gain goodwill among their voters. Legal institutions want to make things appear as complicated and uncertain as possible so that they make more money selling lawyers.

The end result is that you get mixed messages, depending on where the information ultimately came from.

I personally don't know how hard it actually is to comply with GDPR, but I know that it has to be easier than it's made out to be.

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